_Ptilinopus ponapensis_ Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877
(1878), p. 779. (Type locality, Ponapé.)
_Ptilinopus? fasciatus_ Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12, 1876,
pp. 18, 37 (Ponapé).
_Ptilopus fasciatus_ Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878, p. 536
(Ponapé); Tristram, Cat. Birds, 1889, p. 44 (Ponapé).
_Ptilopus ponapensis_ Schmeltz, Verhandl. Ver. nat. Unterhaltung
Hamburg, 1877 (1879), pp. 178, 179 (Ponapé); Finsch, Proc. Zool.
Soc. London, 1880, p. 576 (Ruk, Ponapé); _idem_, Journ. f.
Ornith., 1880, pp. 291, 303 (Ponapé); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1880, p. 578 (Ruk, Ponapé); _idem_, Ibis, 1881, pp. 113,
115 (Ponapé); Wiglesworth, Ibis, 1891, p. 583 (Ponapé, Ruk);
_idem_, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891
(1891), p. 50 (Ponapé, Ruk); Salvadori, Cat. Birds British Mus.,
21, 1893, p. 93 (Ponapé, Ruk); Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist.
Nat., Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 222 (Ponapé); Nehrkron, Kat. Eiers.,
1899, p. 180 (Ruk); Dubois, Syn. Avium, 2, 1904, p. 736 (Ruck,
Ponapé); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 1, 1913, p. 354 (Ruk, Ponapé);
Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 52 (Ruk, Ponapé);
Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63,
1919, p. 189 (Uala, Ponapé).
_Ptilinopus ponapensis_ Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus.
Godeffroy, 1881, p. 353 (Ruk); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p.
7 (Ruk, Ponapé); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1,
1901, p. 42 (Ponapé); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p. 113
(Ruck, Ponapé); Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p.
32 (Ponapé); Bequaert, Mushi, 12, 1939, pp. 81, 82 (Ponapé); Mayr.
Proc. 6th Pacific Sci. Congr., 4, 1939 (1941), p. 204 (Ponapé);
Bequaert, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 16, 1941, pp. 266,
290 (Ponapé).
_Ptilinopus Ponapensis_ Christian, The Caroline Islands, 1899, p.
357 (Ponapé).
_Ptilinopus ponepensis ponapensis_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 57 (Ponapé, Ruk); Yamashina, Tori, 7, 1932,
p. 408 (Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 190
(Ponapé, Ruk); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 3, 1937, p. 31
(Ruk, Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 213
(Ponapé, Truk).
_Ptilinopus porphyraceus ponapensis_ Ripley and Birckhead, Amer.
Mus. Novit., no. 1192, 1942, p. 7 (Ruk, Ponapé); Mayr, Birds
Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 289 (Truk, Ponapé); Baker, Smithson.
Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 59 (Truk).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Truk, Ponapé.
_Characters._--Adult male: A green fruit dove with forehead,
anterior lores and crown near "pansy purple," faintly margined with
yellow; occiput, sides of head, neck, upper breast grayish-green
with bifid feathers of midbreast more olivaceous; chin and
midthroat light yellow; breast, sides and tibia green; midpart of
lower breast dark bluish-green, tinged with dark purple; lower
abdomen, vent, and undertail yellow, under tail-coverts deeper
yellow tinged with orange; upper parts dark green; wings metallic
green on outer webs and tips, inner secondaries and some posterior
scapulars with purple spots near tips; primaries and secondaries
edged on outer webs with yellowish; underwing gray with yellow
edges on hind, under wing-coverts; upper side of tail metallic
green with terminal, broad yellow band; under side of tail gray;
bill lead-colored, feet wine-brown, iris whitish to pale brown.
Adult female resembles adult male, but slightly smaller and duller.
Immature: Resembles adult, but entirely green with yellow edgings
on feathers and lacking crimson crown and colored breast patch.
_Measurements._--Measurements of subspecies of _P. porphyraceus_
in Micronesia are presented in table 25.